You can't boot from a loopback file... can you? Something along the lines of root=/dev/hda1/bigfile.dd ?
-----Original Message----- From: Michael JasonSmith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 26 March 2004 10:16 a.m. To: linux users Subject: Re: usind dd to clone hard drive On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 08:49, gjw49 wrote: > Just out of interest, is there any reason why it shouldn't work going > from a > smaller hard disk to a larger hard disk? I have no reason, but I would not do it none the less :) I would just DD the disk to a file on the larger disk and mount the image through a loopback device. (It'll save space.) -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
